Welcome to the Center for Detectors. CfD designs, develops, and implements new
advanced sensor technologies through collaboration with academic researchers, industry engineers, government
scientists, and university/college students. The CfD operates four laboratories and has approximately a dozen funded projects to advance
detectors in a broad array of applications, e.g. astrophysics, biomedical imaging, Earth system science, and inter-planetary travel. Our observational
astrophysics programs
include studies of massive stars, massive star clusters, the Galactic center, the interstellar medium, the history of structure formation in the Universe, and cosmology.